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AHR Still Has Highest “Impact” in History
The American Historical Review continues to have the highest “impact factor” among history journals, according to the new Journal Citation…
Featured Online Exhibits from NARA
The National Archives features a number of online exhibits on their web site. We’ve previously profiled two of these exhibits…
Senator Robert C. Byrd, Dies at 92
We note with sadness the passing of Robert C. Byrd, who received the AHA’s first Theodore Roosevelt-Woodrow Wilson Award in…
American Historical Review – June 2010 Online
Note: AHA Members, login to member services to access the full text from these articles. The June issue of the…
Is There an E-book in Your Future? A Report from the University Presses
A sense of optimism pervaded the annual meeting of Association of American University Presses (AAUP) this past weekend, even as…
Recession Takes Toll on AHA Membership
The economic hard times rocking the discipline took their toll on the AHA this past year, as membership in the…
Public History: Recognition and Reward in Promotion and Tenure
“Tenure, Promotion, and the Publicly Engaged Academic Historian,” a report offering best practices for evaluating public history scholarship in history…
Great Unsolved Mysteries in Canadian History
Who doesn’t love a good mystery, especially a good history mystery? The Great Unsolved Mysteries in Canadian History web site…
History is All Fun and Games
Games can entertain, occupy, and captivate. Games can also teach. Trevor Owens and Jim Safley at George Mason’s Center…
Please Note: Online Member Services Unavailable June 20–July 4, 2010
All online membership services will be unavailable between June 20 and July 4, 2010. A reminder to all AHA members:…
Help Us Update the Directory!
Summertime is when the AHA updates its annual Directory of History Departments, Historical Organizations, and Historians. We request the assistance…
Historians among 2010 ACLS Fellows
The American Council of Learned Societies recently announced the winners of its 2010 fellowship competition. Over $15 million was awarded…
Assessing the Future of Peer Review
One of the most interesting discussions at the recent The Humanities and Technology Camp concerned the future of peer review…
Discussion: More Interesting Annual Meetings
Yesterday in the discussion section of the AHA’s Facebook page we noted Jennifer Howard’s recent article, “The ‘Unconference’: Technology Loosens…
Lincoln Online
Even 200 years later our 16th President Abraham Lincoln continues to be studied, researched, and reinvented. Whether you’re teaching students…
AHA Joins Other Organizations in Release of Consensus Policy Recommendations affecting the Teaching American History Grants
The AHA is part of a partnership with twenty other organizations to promote an alternative to the Obama administration’s plans…
Get the DiRT on Research
DiRT stands for Digital (that’s the D and the i) Research Tools, and the term encompasses software scholars need when…
London Lives 1690 to 1800: Crime, Poverty, and Social Policy in the Metropolis
London Lives, a new online project funded by the Economic and Social Research Council and developed by the universities of…
Frontier to Heartland: Four Centuries in Central North America
The Newberry Library in Chicago’s Frontier to Heartland site is an online collection of primary sources, many of which offer…
Big Money for Digital Humanities
On July 20, 2010, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft or DFG)…
Construction History Society of America – Newest AHA Affiliate
The AHA welcomes the Construction History Society of America as its newest Affiliated Society. Our new affiliate has the following…
Call for Proposals: Regions and Regionalisms in the Modern World
The AHA Research Division has proposed a new publication series on the subject of “Regions and Regionalisms in the Modern…
Top 25 Web Sites for Teaching and Learning
The American Association of School Librarians (AASL) has once again chosen “The Top 25 Websites for Teaching and Learning.” The…
Wondering what to do with your BA in history?
Update May 12, 2015: This blog post was published in 2010. To adapt to the changing job market, the AHA…
Books by Members – July 2010
As a service to AHA members, we are listing books by members received in the headquarters office in recent months.…
Call to Support Records Law for New York
In a letter to David Paterson, the Governor of New York, AHA Executive Director Arnita Jones asks the governor to…
Digital Military Newspaper Library
The University of Florida Libraries Digital Collections has established a Digital Military Newspaper Library. This pilot project features contemporary and…
National Book Festival Returns to D.C.
Less than a month from now—September 25, 2010—the Library of Congress will hold its 10th annual National Book Festival on…
Teaching American History Grants: A Call for Action
Recently, a number of AHA members and others have expressed concern and dismay over the future of the Teaching American…
David Weber, Vice-president of the AHA’s Professional Division, Dies at 69
David J. Weber, historian of the Borderlands, the American West, and Latin America and vice-president of the American Historical Association’s…
Technicolor Dreams for Perspectives on History
The entire September 2010 issue of Perspectives on History (and every issue thereafter) will appear in glorious four-color print on…
The 90th Anniversary of the 19th Amendment
Ninety years ago today, on August 18, 1920, the 19th Amendment, giving women the right to vote, was ratified. The…
Preparing for Constitution Day
Constitution Day is exactly one month away, and commemorates the day (September 17, 1787) the U.S. Constitution was signed. To…
The Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association at 107
Some of us are old enough to remember differential pricing by region. Before the 1970s, ads in national magazines often…
Paul Longmore, Professor of History, Advocate of the Disabled, Dies at 64
Paul Longmore, a member of the AHA Task Force on Disability, passed away on August 9, 2010. Longmore was professor…
Teaching American History Grants: 124 Grants and $115.3 Million Awarded
Last week, on August 6, 2010, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan announced the most recent recipients of Teaching American…
History, There’s an App for That
You’ve heard the commercials: from finding the nearest coffee shop, to tracking a flight, to monitoring your spending, there’s an…
Black, and White, and Read All Over: Digitized Newspaper Resources
While traditional newspapers may not be the way of the future, they were definitely the way of the past. Here…
Memorable Fictional History Teachers
Today, in the discussion section of the AHA Facebook page, we ask, for fun: “Who are the most memorable fictional…
What Do We Know about History in the Schools?
A colleague recently asked what, if any, information is available about history at the K–12 level. The sad answer is—not…